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14 March, 2023
Paul Levin: What does the future hold for the Swedish Nato accession process?

Paul Levin: What does the future hold for the Swedish Nato accession process?

What is the current state of play in the negotiations between Sweden, Finland, and Turkey over NATO accession? Is Finland going it alone and, if so, what would that mean for Sweden and NATO? What can

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07 February, 2017

Do good. And do it better

Do you ever donate money to a charitable cause? If you do, how do you choose what cause to favour? The Scottish philosopher William MacAskill says that we are generally quite bad at regarding donation

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22 October, 2013

The good man's racism?

It is becoming common for political parties with xenophobic views to appear in parliaments in Europe, Sweden is no exception. There is an ongoing debate about xenophobia and diversity in the media, in

It is becoming common for political parties with xenophobic views to appear in parliaments in Europe, Sweden is no exception. There is an ongoing debate about xenophobia and diversity in the media, in government investigations and in seminars.
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19 September, 2023

Ethics of Coordination

This is a hybrid workshop. If you wish to join, get in touch with Olle Torpman, [email protected] more information about the workshop, including abstracts, visitthe project website Agenda Wednesd10.00–11:45 Julia Nefsky: Expexted Utility, the Pond Analogy and Imperfect Duties13.30–14.30 Anne Schwenkenbecher: We-mode reasoning about our environmental obligations14.45–15.45 Vuko Andric: 

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07 February, 2017
Do good and do it better. Interview with William MacAskill podcast

Do good and do it better. Interview with William MacAskill

Gustaf Arrhenius, director at the Institute for futures studies in Stockholm, interviews philosoper William MacAskill about effective altruism, doing good better.

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11 December, 2019

Democracy and the Common Good: A Study of the Weighted Majority Rule

Doctoral thesis in practical philosophy, Stockholm: Department of Philosophy, Stockholm University. Abstract In this study I analyse the performance of a democratic decision-making rule: the weighted ma

Type of publication: Journal articles | Berndt Rasmussen, Katharina
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18 September, 2018

Completed: Good and just allocation of health-related resources

How should health-related resources be allocated at the population-level? This project explores some problems with conventional approaches and presents a new one.

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16 December, 2019
Gordon Pennycook, Assistant Professor of Behavioural Science at University of Regina’s Hill

Reasoning like good lawyers or bad philosophers?

22 November, Institute for Futures Studies. A Multidisciplinary Look at Knowledge Resistance ’Knowledge Resistance: Causes, Consequences, and Cures' is a multidiciplinary research program, comprised o

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15 August, 2022

Katie Steele: Neutrality about creating good lives - No panacea for longtermism

Place: At the Institute for Futures Studies, Holländargatan 13, Stockholm, or online.REGISTERAbstractThe principle of neutrality can be seen as a direct response to the totalistapproach to evaluating popu

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18 October, 2022
Katie Steele: Neutrality About Creating Good Lives - No Panacea For Longtermism

Katie Steele: Neutrality About Creating Good Lives - No Panacea For Longtermism

The principle of neutrality can be seen as a direct response to the totalist approach to evaluating populations of varying constitution and size: while the latter holds that the addition of a good lif

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